Electronic device for health index measurement and control method of the same

• US 7,361,142 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2003
• Issued: 04/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nihon Seimitsu Sokki Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nihon Seimitsu Sokki Company Limited
• Inventors: Suda, Eikichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nasser, Jr.; Robert L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Toth; Karen E
• Application Number:
  US10/666,548
• Publication Number:
  US 20050101842A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,674 Days
• Field of Search: 600/300
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick

Abstract

The present invention allows easily performing various types of controls and improving productivity without adding a special communication section. The present invention includes a power receiving section 21 to be connected to a driving power supply 50, a voltage measuring section 22 configured to measure a variation of a power supply voltage that is inputted to the power receiving section 21, a signal extracting section 23 configured to analyze measured data thereof and to extract a digital code contained in the measured data, and a control section 24 configured to perform a specific control based on the extracted digital code. As the specific control, the control section 24 selects an operation mode corresponding to the digital code from selectively executable plural operation modes, performs a function setting corresponding to the digital code, or writes the digital code as individual information into a nonvolatile memory.

Claims

1. An electronic device for health index measurement, comprising:

a power receiving section that receives a power supply voltage into which a digital code expressed by a time-series voltage variation pattern is inserted for performing a specific control;

a voltage measuring section configured to measure a variation of a power supply voltage that is inputted to said power receiving section;

a signal extracting section configured to analyze data measured by the voltage measuring section and to extract said digital code contained in the measured data;

a first control section configured to perform said specific control based on said digital code extracted by said signal extracting section;

a second control section configured to perform a control for health index measurement and other necessary controls; and

one switch section, or two or more switch sections configured to transmit a switching signal and other signals to each section by a predetermined setting operation,

wherein said first control section has a function of performing a kind of control selected from plural kinds of specific controls by said digital code when receiving said digital code from said signal extracting section, and said second control section has a function of selecting a kind of control to be performed in said first control section in accordance with which switch section of said plural switch sections is operated and having it executed.

2. An electronic device for health index measurement, comprising:

a power receiving section that receives a power supply voltage into which a digital code expressed by a time-series voltage variation pattern is inserted for performing a specific control;

a voltage measuring section configured to measure a variation of a power supply voltage that is inputted to said power receiving section;

a signal extracting section configured to analyze data measured by the voltage measuring section and to extract said digital code contained in the measured data;

a first control section configured to perform said digital code based on the signal extracted by said signal extracting section; and

a second control section configured to perform a control for health index measurement and other necessary controls,

wherein said first control section has a function of performing a control selected from plural kinds of specific controls by said digital code when receiving said digital code from said signal extracting section; and

wherein said second control section has a function capable of selecting and executing one kind of operation mode, or two or more kinds of operation modes as an operation mode of said electronic device, and has a function of selecting a kind of control to be performed in said first control section in accordance with which operation mode of these operation modes is selected and having it executed.

3. A control method of an electronic device for health index measurement including a power receiving section, comprising:

having a digital code incorporated in a power supply voltage that is expressed by a time-series voltage variation pattern for performing a specific control and is maintained in a range of a voltage higher than a minimum operating voltage, and receiving the power supply voltage;

measuring a variation of the power supply voltage inputted in the power receiving section, in a voltage measuring section;

analyzing measured data thus obtained and extracting said digital code included in the measured data, in a signal extracting section; and

performing a specific control based on said digital code extracted by said signal extracting section, in a first control section,

so that in said digital code, a low level voltage period of a predetermined length and higher than a minimum operating voltage of an electronic device is set before a period of incorporating the digital code, and said digital code begins with a high-level voltage after said low-level voltage period, and is expressed by a variation pattern of a combination of high-level and low-level voltages,

said control method further comprising;

making said electronic device perform said specific control based on the digital control based on the digital code, by connecting a driving power supply for supplying the power supply voltage to said power receiving section, and applying from said power supply to said power receiving section of said electronic device a power supply voltage in which said digital code is incorporated.

4. The control method of the electronic device for health index measurement according to claim 3, comprising:

a driving power supply for supplying the power supply voltage incorporating said digital code in said power supply voltage.